Prince Harry Says Royals Planted Meghan Tales

They promise to inform the reality — the “full” fact. Prince Harry and Meghan Markle hinted that they’ll inform their “full” story of their extremely anticipated Netflix documentary.

“It’s actually arduous to look again on it now and go, ‘What on earth occurred?’” the Duke of Sussex, 38, says within the first moments of the Harry & Meghan trailer, which was launched on Monday, December 5, earlier than later explaining, “Nobody is aware of the total fact [of what happened]. We all know the total fact.”

The Invictus Video games founder seemingly claims that the palace planted adverse tales about him and Meghan, 41, in the course of the peak of their battle with the press. “There’s a hierarchy of the household,” Harry says. “You already know, there’s leaking, however there’s additionally planting of tales.”

He continued: “It’s a unclean recreation.”

Within the Harry & Meghan trailer — which can chronicle the couple’s life in California with son Archie, 3, and daughter Lili, 18 months — Harry additionally compares the best way the previous Fits actress was handled by the press and the royal household to the adverse consideration that his late mom, Princess Diana, endured earlier than her loss of life in 1997. “The ache and struggling of girls marrying into this establishment — this feeding frenzy … I used to be terrified,” the previous army pilot says, as headlines about Diana and Princess Kate flash throughout the display screen. “I didn’t need historical past to repeat itself.”

This isn’t the primary time that Harry has drawn comparisons between the therapy his spouse and mom obtained after becoming a member of the royal household. In the course of the duo’s March 2021 tell-all interview with CBS, the Higher Assist CIO opened up about feeling “helpless” when it got here to preventing in opposition to the fixed protection from the U.Ok. press.

“I assumed my household would assist, however each single ask, request, warning, no matter it’s, simply bought met with whole silence or whole neglect,” he claimed on the time, including this his largest worry was “historical past repeating itself.”

Regardless of the obvious digs on the royal household within the trailer, a supply advised Us Weekly in October that the couple modified how Harry’s father, King Charles III, can be portrayed following the loss of life of Queen Elizabeth II in September. “They’ve each agreed to achieve a impartial floor by softening the elements on Charles and including intimate particulars about [Queen Elizabeth II‘s] legacy,” the insider revealed on the time, explaining that Harry and Meghan needed to share their facet of the story “with out crossing a line.”

The six-episode collection has added to the rumored rigidity between Harry and his brother, Prince William, nevertheless. Netflix launched the primary teaser for Harry & Meghan on Thursday, December 1, shortly after the Prince and Princess of Wales arrived in Boston for an official go to.

“To drop [the trailer] as they’ve on the primary or second day of the Prince and Princess of Wales’s journey to the U.S. for the Earthshot Prize reveals simply precisely how a lot they needed to hijack that publicity,” royal knowledgeable Jonathan Sacerdoti completely advised Us Weekly on Thursday. “It simply reveals how a lot they’ll go to any finish in any respect for as a lot publicity as attainable. They are going to soar on his personal brother’s journey to advertise these environmental prizes with a purpose to steal that limelight and get extra consideration.”

He continued: “That is actually a punch to the royal household as soon as once more from [Harry and Meghan]. I feel it’s fairly arduous [for the royal family] not to concentrate to this. … You may’t ignore it. It’s a continuing noise for them and it’s one thing that they’d wish to go away.”

Half one in all Harry & Meghan will premiere on Netflix Thursday, December 8. The second installment will observe on December 15.